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Spirit and Opportunity: 10 years on Mars

An artist rendering released by NASA shows the rover Opportunity on the surface of Mars.

An exhibition by the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington celebrates the images and achievements of the rovers Opportunity and Spirit on the 10th anniversary of their landings on the Red Planet.

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Spirit and Opportunity: 10 years on Mars

An artist rendering released by NASA shows the rover Opportunity on the surface of Mars.
An exhibition by the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington celebrates the images and achievements of the rovers Opportunity and Spirit on the 10th anniversary of their landings on the Red Planet. NASA via AP

A July 14, 2009, photograph from the Mars rover Spirit shows a dust devil moving across the landscape. The rover was taking exposures with different color filters and because several seconds intervened between shots with different filters, the location of the dust devils changed between the exposures. NASA via AP

This image provided by NASA shows loose, BB-sized, hematite-rich spherules embedded in a Martian rock like blueberries in a muffin. The Mars Rover Opportunity found this cluster at the Eagle Crater landing site on Nov. 26, 2013. NASA via AP

People celebrate while looking at the first images arriving from Mars after the rover Spirit landed on the red planet on Jan. 3, 2004, at Jet Propulsion Laboratory headquarters in Pasadena, Calif. Bill Ingalls, NASA, via AP